Agenda item - Procedural Business

(a)          Declarations of Substitutes:  Where councillors are unable to attend a meeting, a substitute Member from the same political group may attend, speak and vote in their place for that meeting.

(b)          Declarations of Interest: 

(a)      Disclosable pecuniary interests;

(b)      Any other interests required to be registered under the local code;

(c)      Any other general interest as a result of which a decision on the matter might reasonably be regarded as affecting you or a partner more than a majority of other people or businesses in the ward/s affected by the decision.

In each case, you need to declare

(i)        the item on the agenda the interest relates to;

(ii)      the nature of the interest; and

(iii)     whether it is a disclosable pecuniary interest or some other interest.

If unsure, Members should seek advice from the committee lawyer or administrator preferably before the meeting.

(c)          Exclusion of Press and Public:  To consider whether, in view of the nature of the business to be transacted or the nature of the proceedings, the press and public should be excluded from the meeting when any of the following items are under consideration.

Note:   Any item appearing in Part Two of the agenda states in its heading the category under which the information disclosed in the report is exempt from disclosure and therefore not available to the press and public.

A list and description of the exempt categories is available for public inspection at Brighton and Hove Town Halls and on-line in the Constitution at part 7.1.

            Screening of Short Film “The Silent Child”

            Before proceeding to consider business of the meeting including the presentation given by representatives from the St Giles’ Trust the Committee and Members of the Public attending the meeting had the opportunity to attend a screening of the Oscar winning short film entitled “The Silent Child”.

63a     Declaration of Substitutes

63.1    Councillor Greenbaum was present in substitution for Councillor Knight and Councillor Meadows was in attendance in substitution for Councillor Bewick. Jessica Sumner was in attendance in substitution for Joanna Martindale. Chris Clark was welcomed in attendance on behalf of the CCG.

63b     Declarations of Interest

63.2    There were none, although Councillor Daniel the Chair referred to the fact that she worked for Hamilton Lodge School and College for deaf children and that in that capacity she had used her discretion and invited a pupil of the school and representatives on behalf of the deaf community to address the Committee and in order to facilitate their involvement the meeting would be signed by representatives of the British Sign Language Association.

62c     Exclusion of Press and Public

62.3    In accordance with Section 100A of the Local Government Act 1972 (“The Act”), the Committee considered whether the press and public should be excluded from the meeting during an item of business on the grounds that it was likely, in view of the business to be transacted or the nature of the proceedings, that if members of the press and public were present during that item, that there would be disclosure to them of confidential information, (as defined in section 100A(3) of the Act) or exempt information as defined in section 100(1) of the Act).

62.4    RESOLVED – That the press and public be not excluded during consideration of any item appearing on the agenda.